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Talker's MagazineThe quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).

The AdvocateNo, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.

Media MattersDocumentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.

Orcinushome of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups

Hominid Views"People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.

Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.

Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."

The Moderate VoiceThe voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.

News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.

HistoryLinkFun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.

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The Reagan WingHearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.

November 23, 2009

KVI’s Peter Weissbach hires illegals, according to report

It’s one of those tropes you always hear on right-wing talk radio: bust the employers of undocumented workers, and the problem will be solved.

But in a Seattle Times story today, an Obama administration strategy that does just that has backfired on far-right talkhost, KVI Peter Weissbach, 62, (m-f, 5-6p) who’s gotten very rich running Seattle Building Maintenance, a janitorial service that employs the very illegals he rants against the government not busting!. (At, of course, the miserly wages that corporations can get away with paying such workers).

According to Lornet Turnbull’s story, Weissbach, (rhymes with pies-rack) and his wife’s company cleans such downtown landmarks as Seattle Art Institute, Pacific Place, Metropolitan Park and the Dexter Horton and Westin buildings.

“The subject of an ongoing immigration audit by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, the company has been clearing its books by firing some of itseport janitorial staff — about 100 people so far — believed to be working illegally.”

The probe of Seattle Building Maintenance offers an early glimpse into ICE's approach to worksite enforcement — stealthily targeting employers rather than workers.

ICE’s new strategy is in lieu of dramatic workshop raids that make great teevee.

The article says the Weissbachs have been cooperating with ICE only since approximately last August.

The wealthy Weissbach has, what’s been described to Blatherwatch, as a “business arrangement” with the troubled KVI, giving him an hour of drivetime to indulge his hobby of being a right-wing talk host. A Canadian emigrant and naturalized US citizen, Weissbach is heir to a rich Vancouver family who made their money in recycling (garbage removal).

Weissbach was hired in 1999 when KVI removed Michael Medved (who loaths him) from their line-up (Medved was syndicated shortly thereafter but was not allowed to be heard in Seattle for a year when Fisher pressed his non-compete clause to its full extent).

After he was fired from KVI, his once-promising radio career declined. Weissbach has had weekend shows on KIRO, and done fill-in for Michael Savage, Art Bell.

As Weissbach has harped for years, and years,

The Weissbach Show has no false gods and no sacred cows. It's the show
that looks behind the facade; pricks the pretensions; and questions the
veil that we're told is reality. It's the show that encourages you to
think - and once having thought - stand up and speak out.

Will this blatant hypocrisy and lawbreaking cost the "prick of pretension" his hour of right-wing drivetime radio?

Weissbach is a fascist posing as a libertarion who laughed onair repeatedly over the sounds of a demonstrator's screams as he was being tased, during WTO. Sick pup. Fuck off, Weissbach, you creep. and your little dog, too.

Well, there you go. What say ye Peter, are you trading your life's energy for cheap immigrant labor. Shame on you. Seriously I would like to know who pays whom for your KVI Show? Are you taking some of the cheap immigrant labor business profits to actually pay Fisher for air time? You phony son on the beach. I hope you get banned from Seattle air waves and shipped back to Canada.

Jane Doe is the name given to so many otherwise unidentifiable corpses of con idealism before you. They're just piling up everywhere. What was your previous name? We'd like to update your toe tag and properly notify your family.

You might be right about Palin being a threat, she has the majority of that math challenged pie chart, and tons of mentally challenged people bought her book and showed up for her book signing. Too many Americans don't have a sense of humor. That older lady said it all "Palin is what America is all about!", "what's that?", "um...uh...someone help me out!"

Gorebull warming heating up folks. Watch how most of these in house lackys ignore this until the proper talking points are distributed. Very damaging E-Mails that HAVE BEEN verified and admitted to. Grab the popcorn and watch this ever unfold. This could be one of the greatest hoaxes ever pulled on humanity.

Final nail in the coffin? I don't think so. Maybe it's been set back a few yards. There are too many people who care too much about the environment to simply give up on the cause. Poluting, overstuffing landfills with non bio-degradable materials and recklessly consuming fossil fuels is and always will be in poor taste.

No sensible person is against energy conservation and keeping this earth as clean as possible.
But this Al Gore'ish BS is all about $money and may be now it will be brought out in the open and see what hypocrites these bastards are.

Then there are no sensible persons among the neo-cons; anyone who even suggested a "green viewpoint" was ostracized, a republican tactic to keep out moderates that is still used today. Conservatives look at the environment like their teenagers look at their allowance: spend it now on yourself, and forget about the future.

I've heard conservatives literally say "If you can afford to buy the land or pay for the oil it's yours to do what you want with it."

They believe that money is king, and whoever has money gets to decide on how we treat the invironment or use up limited resources, and people without money do not. They believe the green movement is an attempt by the "have nots" to control the "haves".

And many of the "have-nots" have been convinced by republicans that they can join the "have-mores", even though that crowd isn't actually invited to the party. I get a kick out of the nutsacks that try to push this propaganda that Gore is a rich man that is out to put them into financial ruin. They seemed quite OK with that when Cheney and W(TF) were doing that to us.

That argument is void. It died after Bush left office, but was a valid argument then. The Obama- Chicago Mafia White House has taken up that mantle and is running rough-shod over the Constitution plucking away our liberties and making Bush's attempt at government expansion seem like child's play.

If the policy that Gore is pushing is adopted, suffice it to say, many nations will be financial ruin. No common sense, how juvenile and pathetic !

It is still a valid argument because many people are still defending Bush and his policies, and because we are going to be paying for Bush's destruction of the economy and environment and world view for a long time. Since we do not want to return to those horrible days, we need to insure that neo-con philosophies are never adopted again.

KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.

KTTH am 770 KHzRight wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.